On 03/23/2011 11:15 PM, Robert Nesius wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:34 PM, John Hawley > <jhawley at hissingdragon.net <mailto:jhawley at hissingdragon.net>> wrote: > > Can't figure out what's up with screen on one of my machines. > > jhawley at vulpix:~$ screen -S 1 ... and I get a blank screen with > "New screen ..." at bottom for a few seconds. Screen appears to > be running, but none of the Ctrl commands work. > > If I log in as root, it works fine. This is Ubuntu 10.4. > > What might be up? "screen" is such a generic name, its hard to > google for. :/ > > > I'm wondering if your tty/terminal settings are different from root's. > > Are root and your non-root user running the same screen? (Probably, > but I'd check anyway.) > > Just brainstorming. > > -Rob Ok, it is something to do with settings in my ~/.bashrc. If I temporarily remove that file and start a new terminal, everythings fine with screen. I'll have to dissect it to see what is conflicting. ~jh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110324/c9470fb9/attachment-0001.html>